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I mean, at the end of the day when I'm making a record, what I want to do is what I do.
I'm a pretty big P.J. Harvey record fan and you can really hear New York in his record.
I love shopping. I don't go on crazy 'I'm going shopping' sprees; I shop as I go along.
For me writing is that place where I can escape; it's where I let my thoughts run wild.
Apparently I'm introspective... levelheaded... but at the same time, absolutely insane.
I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record.
Writing has become such an outlet for me that when I don't have it, I just get pent up.
I am privileged to do a job I love to do. I would never change any moment from my life.
I come from a long line of matriarchal women, and my greatest teachers were my mothers.
Breathing becomes really easy when you're laughing. It kick starts that feeling of joy.
I mean, there are times when you aren't working, but still believe that work will come.
I would say my greatest musical influences have been Ella Fitzgerald and Mary J. Blige.
I know more than I knew before I didn't rest I didn't stop Did we fight or did we talk.
I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it.
Everything that happens to me, I experience it really intensely. I feel it very deeply.
Five years from now I'm probably going to look back on the things I'm doing and cringe.
If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also.
When 5150 came out rock was king. Post Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1996 is a different story.
I'm much more accepting of myself. A lot of my body issues have naturally settled down.
We're all just trying to fit in and find ourselves, particularly when we're growing up.
This city desert makes you feel so cold. It's got so many people, but it's got no soul.
I don't want to put out a CD of album songs. I'm gunning for every song to be a single.
I'm careful what I put out there into the universe, musically. I don't take it lightly.
Kanye and I spoke of working together and started an idea that we didn't get to finish.
I have to work very hard to look the way I do. I want the girls out there to know that.
I'd love to spit some Beechnut in that dude's eye and shoot him with my ole forty-five.
He plead insanity like they do now all the time. Sir, what would you have done in 1859?
Don't judge. Don't stay inside all the time. Get out and let somebody know who you are.
The choices that we make aren't always perfect but it's ok... It's part of the journey.
I don't even have a type, I don't think. My type is just whoever can get along with me.
My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar!
The words are all around but the words are only sounds and no one ever seems to listen.
Bob Dylan led me to this kind of music - and it's his and ours. And it's nobody else's.
The song is about love, life, fear and hope... and more than anything, you... and me...
I love hamburgers, but if you give me a hamburger for every meal, I'm gonna tire of it.
Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.
Whenever I see your smiling face, I have to smile myself, because I love you, yes I do.
The best thing is when you hear somebody take your song and make something great of it.
Privacy has become the most precious thing. Things have got more cryptic in my writing.
I love seeing teachers outside of school. It's like seeing a dog walk on its hind legs.
Once you're halfway home, you know that you can probably get the rest of the way there.
I look around my life and it's hard to believe that music has given me all that I have.
At the end of the day I have to please myself. And I've made a record to please myself.
When I think people like one record more than the other, then someone will surprise me.
The '90s is my favourite era of music, especially the girl-bands like Babes in Toyland.
We grew up with a different gauge on what pop is. Pop for us was INXS and John Farnham.
I'm sorry that 'Fringe' is gone. I really wanted to do more on that show. It was great!
She might be nasty, she might be fat, but I never met a person who would tell her that.
I've got a Caribbean soul I can barely control, and some Texas hidden here in my heart!
I don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable.